Introducing docs.microsoft.com

Re:Introducing docs.microsoft.com by foota on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @05:07AM (#11627132)

Maybe I'm just losing my eyesight, but does anyone else find that font impossible to read?

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Re:Introducing docs.microsoft.com by cmrx64 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @05:30AM (#11627203)

I also find it hard on my eyes. Looks like it's "Segoe UI" embedded via web fonts.

If you compare their screenshot: https://docs.microsoft.com/teamblog/content/images/2016/05/D...

To one of mine: https://imgur.com/rFwTqUW

It's not even close.

Edit: Seems the "blog" portion is very different than the actual docs: https://imgur.com/YKvFxCh

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Re:Introducing docs.microsoft.com by danfernandez on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @04:34PM (#11631526)

[Disclosure: I work for the team that built docs.microsoft.com]

Thanks folks, we had Segoe UI Light on the blog and have switched it to use the same font as our docs!

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Re:Introducing docs.microsoft.com by cmrx64 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @06:58PM (#11632647)

Awesome! It's very encouraging to see your comments here, reminds me there are humans in the tech ;)

docs.microsoft.com looks like it will be a very nice upgrade.

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Re:Introducing docs.microsoft.com by realusername on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @05:51AM (#11627261)

Mine looks similar to yours but even a bit lighter than your screenshot, it's really totaly unredable even when selecting the text.

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Re:Introducing docs.microsoft.com by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @08:10AM (#11627737)

It looks like they are using segoe UI Light with a bad contrast (background too white, text too dark). Their visual design needs work.

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Re:Introducing docs.microsoft.com by jug on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @06:27AM (#11627361)

Ironically I think these kind of thin font faces render worse on Windows than on both OS X (Quartz) and Linux (FreeType). An odd choice given their rendering engine's limitations, but hey, maybe they are just expecting people to move on to HiDPI displays where I think rendering engine deficiences are often taken care of by raw resolution.

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Re:Introducing docs.microsoft.com by Szel on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @06:55AM (#11627451)

It's hard to read for me too. I think it's because too little contrast for such thin font. Main page is bad too, especially this blue boxes.

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Re:Introducing docs.microsoft.com by JonoW on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @05:29AM (#11627196)

They have a toggle for light/dark themes (dropdown in the right hand col) if it helps?

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